Today, more than 12 percent of deaths among men are related to smoking and that proportion is increasing.

But cancer is involved in only about 25 percent of anticipated deaths.

Forty percent of deaths among the urban working class were from tuberculosis.

Over 90 percent of deaths on the job occur to men.

It is linked to about 28 percent of food-poisoning deaths.

In 98 percent of American deaths, there is no estate tax liability.

It accounts for up to fifty percent of deaths in certain populations.

Japanese figures show that over all, 30 percent of deaths in 1996 were caused by cancer.

"By our analysis, that's how 17 percent of pedestrian deaths happen."

Studies show that suicide accounts for about 25 percent of teenage deaths.